Week 2 Videos and Questions

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Task 1: Afghan Institute of Learning

Watch the video below (or, look for it in the '515 Teacher' folder on your desktop).

While you watch, answer the following questions in complete sentences.



Example: What does the lady say the name of the report is?
Answer: She says the name of the report is the VOA Special English Development Report. (Note - This is a complete sentence)
  1. What did Sakena Yacoobi see when she was a child in Afghanistan?
  2. What did the women in Afghanistan not have?
  3. What did they have very little, or none, of?
  4. When did Sakena go to the United States?
  5. What did she do when she was there?
  6. When did she visit the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan?
  7. What did that visit persuade her to do?
  8. When did she start the Afghan Institute of Learning?
  9. Who did the organisation serve at its beginning?
  10. What did the Taliban control at that time?
  11. What did the Taliban rulers forbid girls to do?
  12. What did Sakena risk her life to do?
  13. How many girls attended these schools?
  14. When did American forces oust the Taliban?
  15. What does Sakena's organisation avoid today?
  16. What three things does the organisation operate?
  17. How many teachers has the Institute trained?
  18. What has it provided for 500,000 women?
  19. How many staff members does the organisation have?
  20. What do both men and women discuss about the Koran?
  21. Why did the institute open Gawhar Shad University?
  22. How many students have already graduated from this university?
  23. What kind of majors do they offer at this university?
  24. How many women does the Afghan Institute of Learning serve each year?
  25. How much money did Sakena get for winning the award? What was the award for?
  26. What did Sakena say when she accepted her award?


Task 2:Widgets' president introduction

Watch the video below and type out everything the president of Widgets says.